First time Astaro user. I absolutely love the product and am on the cusp of recommending it to some of my small-business consultant friends. The only hurdle I have left is validating that QOS is working on low-bandwidth broadband connections.
I have gone through the posts here and any documentation that I can find. It appears that under V6 there may be an issue with QOS actually functioning properly. My experimental setup is as follows:
Athlon 700Mhz w/ 512MB RAM
Astaro v6
3000/512 DSL
100 Mbps LAN
2 LAN clients
1 802.11 client
1 Linux server (HTTP, SAMBA services)
All services including IPS, MASQ, DNS, HTTP Proxy, SIP Proxy working fine. When I enable QOS though, there is a hiccup. The external interface is configured with QOS on, uplink at 512:256:192:64, downlink at 3000. As with all other reports that I have seen, any service (P2P for example) that will consume all bandwidth does not release it to the higher-priority queues when necessary.
Example rules (using a P2P app for bandwidth consumption):
Source - Service - Action - Destination
Internal - Any - Allow (standard) - Any
Any - P2P - Allow (low-priority) - Any
With the P2P app running at fulll speed, all of the normal congestion issues crop up. SIP calls and RTP connections drop, latency skyrockets, web browsing fails (even pointed to the HTTP Proxy). Is there a problem with this ruleset or is it the QOS implementation?
One other thing. I noticed that the "Monitor Interface Usage" option does not appear in WebAdmin for a PPPoE-DSL connection as it does for standard ethernet. Is there a way to manually trigger the threshold messages? Is this an oversight in the management interface?
Any help or insight would be appreciated.
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